Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-26
PERSONAL ANU GENERAL.


rebels and the Ameer's forces.
PRESIDENT GREvY, on the list, sum-
| moned NJ. Clemenceau to form a new
cabinet Clemenceau has cen a warm
supporter of General Boulanpst.
| IT has been decided that the proceed
| ings at the fishery conferences at Wash
| ington shall be kept secret until they are
| ended.
| THE Liverpool steamship Douro has
| been wrecked off Cape Finisterre. Thirteen
| persons were drowned.
THE Newark (0.) Wire-Cloth Works
were destroyed by fire on the 21st. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, about the same amount,
in several companies
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
began the hearing of the complaints on
the 21st against the various railroads al
leging discrimination in favor of the
Standard Oil Company.
The cause of the sinking of the steamer
w. A. Scholten in the English channel
has not yet been determined Statements
concerning the coll sion continue to be
conflicting.
FRANK I. NoRTHEY, who was recently
convicted at San Francisco on a charge
of attempting to bribe jury, was sem
fenced on the Dist to nine years imprison-
ment at San Quentin.
THE Russian newspapers re-echo the
opinion Of the German press that no polit-
ical change of Importance is likely to arise
from the recent interview between the
Gar and the Emperor of Germany.
JON CoNRoY, a hackmaa, was murder
ed at Sing Sing, n. Y, on the night of the
Goth. Three Hungarians named Stephen
Maloga, Andrew Uhrin and Geo. Fabel,
1 Il ol,a x--i%b
THE pork packing establis hment of A.
j. McCrea, on the Bee Line railroad at
Clark av nue., Cleveland, o., was burned
on the night of the 2lst The loss is S2O,-
900, and the insurance S35, 900.
A FIRE at Covington, Tenn, on the
morning of the 21st, burned E. E. Smiths
t family grocery store; Leatherwood &
l Turner's general store, in the rear OF
i which was iocated the post-office, and G.
g w. Smitheal'; law Office. The losses were
partially insured.
THE Colorado Coal and Iron Company
> won its case against the Government in
= the United States Supreme Court
THE st. Louis district has passed from
I fifth to fourth place in the amount OF
revenue collections during the past year.
4 JACOB SCHwAB, q well-known importer
: of laces, was instantly killed at New
York, on the s1st, by falling down the
} elevator shaft in bis warehouse at No. 800
Broadway.
THE Servian Government has demand
ed of Bulgaria an explanation of the cir
cular declaring that Servian subjects in
. Bulgaria viii not be admitted to the
! privileges granted under the capitula-
tions.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has returned to
: Washington in improved health He
was at the Navy Department short time
on the 21st, ant afterwards called on the
President. He will not take an active
part III the management of the Navy De-
partment for several days.
MRS. CLEVELAND has, as her guests, Miss
Kingsford, of Oswego; Miss Minnie Alex
ander, of Cleveland, O., and Miss Julia
Severance, of Bridgeport, 0.
THE persons arrested in Berlin for
throwing petitions into the Cars car
riage on his recent visit are Russians,
named Kapitmiki and Romberg. They
left Russia to escape military service, and
petitioned to be permitted to return to
Russia without punishment.
AT the session of the National Grange,
at Lansing, Mich, on the 21st, the execu-
tive committee reported 1888 expended
during the past year for lecturers, and
recommended the establishment of a per-
manent headquarters at Washington,
where records, ETC., could be kept
THE Government receipts during the
present month, up to the 2lst, amounted
to $40, 6S5, GAG, and the expenditures to
$25, 349, $40, showing deficiency of S4664,
800. The expenditures include the pay
} ment of SIS, 2S3, 747 on account Of PEN
/ sions.
JOE ROCKER, the cowboy who shot Agent
Gwinn of Choteau, l. T., was admitted to
bail at Fort Smith on the 10Th, but skipped
his bond on the 21st, to the sorrow of DR..
y Burr and two other prominent men of Cho-
team, who were his bondsmen. Officers are
in pursuit of the fugitive.
THE net gold in the United States Treas
ury on the 21st was $207, 766, 020, an in
crease of nearly $5,000000 since the 1st in
stant, and an increase of nearly $20, 100000
since July 1 last. The circulation of stand
ard silver dollars had increased by over
$1,000,o00 since the 1st instant, and by
nearly $S,000,000 since July l.
A CHICAGO paper publishes an article in
which it is stated that Nina Van Zandt,
Spies proxy wife, is wasting away, food
not having passed her lips since the day
| before Spies was hanged.
THE London Board of Trade has award
ed a piece of plate to Captain Boggs of
| the American Line steamer Indiana. and a
silver medal and two pounds each to
| Wilding, Peterson and Anthony, seamen
of that vessel, for rescuing the crew of the
| British bark Lammergeir.
| In the fog that prevailed on Lake Michi-
| gan on the 21st the propeller Waverly of
the Ogdensburg line ran on the rocks at
| North point, five miles above Milwaukee.
| A relief expedition was sent to her aid.
| INFIRMARY oil well, No. l, at Findlay,
| O., caught fire on the 21st. Several frame
buildings and four $4,000 barrel tanks of
| oil were destroyed. The we'll and tanks
belong to Duke & Myers, of Findlay, and
their loss is estimated at $4,000, with no
| insurance.
| MARTIN VAN SAsP and Robert Wild
| were arrested at Boston on the 2lst for
| larceny of $4,000 of stock of the Bruns
wick Land Improvement and Colonization
| Company of Georgia from A. j. Rogers,
its president. The theft was committed
at the Old Colony depot in Boston, No